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The teams for the 2015 RWC have been selected as follows:
- The first three teams from each of the four pools of the 2011 RWC.
- Eight other teams who win the regional playoffs and/or championships.
Australia is in Pool A of RWC 2015, aka the "Pool of Death", along with England, Wales and Fiji. It is unlikely that Australia would finish behind England, Wales and Fiji in this pool (unlikely, but not impossible - on their day, Fiji can be a threat) but if this did happen, would that mean that the Wallabies would then have to go through the full qualification process, i.e. the FORU Oceania Cup in 2017, in order to qualify for the 2019 RWC.
That would be the final indignity.